Last Friday, our division had an offsite meeting at a place called Dave and Buster's which offers a restaurant, a bar, and a gaming room. We met in a private room, for a meal, and a meeting where each department head gave a presentation explaining what his department had been accomplishing during the past six months. Then they did what they ( Read more... )

I feel blank, like I can't connect, like I'm desperately lonesome inside. I wish someone would just touch me. Would someone please hug me. Please? Of course you can't, touch me, so I'll stand in my corner, hug myself and cry. I know. This is a very selfish post, because just your thinking of me will touch me ( Read more... )

I've recently spent some time with people who are blind. It's amazing that it's possible, it seems to go a lifetime without spending time with blind people, but this is my first experience of any time beyond a brief passing exposure. I remember the first time I watched the movie of the life of Helen Keler, particularly in her adulthood times, in ( Read more... )

Sometimes I half wonder if I'm really a damaged extravert, except I just can't be. Too much doesn't fit. Yet sometimes when I spend time with people, instead of it being draining, there is something recharging about it. Like today, I ate lunch with some coworkers, and the whole time I was struggling to understand what people were saying because ( Read more... )

I forgot to add to the previous post, that this kind of teasing constitutes a kind of wounding that one cannot usually opening discuss because most folks would consider it TMI, and not on the list of acceptable conversation subjects so the boy has no way to resolve his frustrations if he feels defenseless, or unable to punch the teaser out. That's ( Read more... )

I've been trying to work through some childhood experiences that got set off by reading one of the references that Val posted last week or before. Actually it was a link from one of the pages she referenced, that was about Homosexuality, and specifically about speculation, based upon research on how Homosexuality would likely develop. It ( Read more... )

I heard about a study on the tube, the other day, stating that people subconsciously treat others who are attractive, better than people who are not attractive, and that it also applies to children. According to the study, parents tend to subconsciously give children, who are attractive, or beautiful, better treatment than children who are more ( Read more... )

For years I have felt rejected by masculinity. I I used to think the feel came from what happened to me in high school, but that doesn't really seem to totally explain it, so I don't know, really what caused it, but it was there in spades all the same. It has been a long hard journey to traverse back to identifying with it. I still remember the ( Read more... )

Went to see my Mother this past weekend. She lives 300 miles (482.8 km) away. While we were there I got to see my two nephews, one is two, and the other is four. My sister in law has often commented that I had a special connection with the younger of the two of them. Something about him being more sensitive. More prone to crying, when he was ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. I didn't tell anyone 'cause I'm not the type that likes to draw attention to myself, but folks at work discovered it anyway ( Read more... )